Friday Five from Rev Gals….I Like Me! Five things you like about yourself… 1. My hair…thick. strong, lots of it. Going gray…finally makes me look my age! Changes colors depending on how much time outside. Sometimes the subject of compliments. Had someone once ask me what number it was…assuming I dyed it. I answered 39….
Author: Kimberly M. King
I am a Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am the director of Barat Spirituality Centre, www.baratspirituality.org, a writer, a juggler, a quick wit, a walker. I enjoy reading all sorts of fiction and non-fiction and regularly write both essays and poetry. Other interests and abilities include Spanish/English written translation and simultaneous interpretation, cooking, and time spent thinking and observing.
Danger or Grace?
(Written for Xavier…that’s why it reads a little funny here…) I am having a hard time shaking the irony from in between the trite adage about the dangers of assuming anything and the glory of the Assumption of Mary. On the one hand, dealing with anything less than the reality of what is before you…
It’s Pouring Possums
From the Zoology Department of RevGals, this Friday has Gone to the Animals! Best wild animal story… That would have to be when I came home from work in southern Louisiana only to be greeted by members of my community standing in the kitchen, waiting for me. “We have a problem.” “Um hmmm….??” “Go look…
Another poem for Mary
Sometimes it feels so good to write a poem for Mary… I did the first one here and added another tonight. Can’t really explain the mood that leads me to it…only that sometimes I just need the refreshment that comes with it. Like cold sasparilla on a hot day, a nap, a walk with quiet…
The Graceful Swallow
For another step in the process of going to Chile for ten months, I have to submit an FBI background check. That requires fingerprints to be taken, a letter written, a payment included, and prayers sent that all arrives and it’s treated in a timely fashion. As I write this, I just got home from…
Finding freedom
The closer I get to leaving the country for ten months, the more I find myself wanting or needing to spend time with friends who remind me by simple reassuring presence that they will still be here, that I will not be forgotten, that words will be read and responded to and thoughts/prayers sent forth,…
Thank you, R.G.
I had the best walk after Mass today. I set off across Union Square and headed down Broadway—there was a breeze, there was ample sunshine, there were wide sidewalks and fairly few people for it being such a perfect City day. It was great to feel so free, so relaxed and right with the world,…
Things seen, Things Heard
While out today… 1. A woman playing Simon and Garfunkel on a saw. Yes, really. It was a completely “other” sound and rather ethereal. Wavy… and actually kind of neat. 2. A caffeine hyped chess player who could power a riding mower with his bouncing leg (which knocked into his pile of Crush and Mountain…
A Real Stretch…
From the Pals at Rev Gals…It’s the Friday Morning Stretch! So how about you and your beautiful temple of the Holy Spirit? 1. What was your favorite sport or outdoor activity as a child? I enjoyed playing catch with baseball and mitt as well as with the frisbee. Favorite though…which plays into my responses for…
Et-Et
I am a convert to the Roman Catholic Church. When I entered, a friend who attended the liturgy approached me afterward and said, “I have no idea why anyone would want to do what you just did, but welcome.” Ironically, this is the same friend who later provided me with both the phone number of…
Consider the Lilies 